Gaia 1 and 2. A pair of new Galactic star clusters
@article{Koposov2017Gaia1A, title={Gaia 1 and 2. A pair of new Galactic star clusters}, author={Sergey E. Koposov and V. Belokurov and G. Cambridge and Carnegie Mellon University}, journal={Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society}, year={2017}, volume={470}, pages={2702-2709} }
We present the results of the very first search for faint Milky Way satellites in the Gaia data. Using stellar positions only, we are able to re-discover objects detected in much deeper data as recently as the last couple of years. While we do not identify new prominent ultra-faint dwarf galaxies, we report the discovery of two new star clusters, Gaia 1 and Gaia 2. Gaia 1 is particularly curious, as it is a massive (2.2$\times$10$^4$ M$_\odot$), large ($\sim$9 pc) and nearby (4.6 kpc) cluster… CONTINUE READING
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